please can you help with my pc build

Nerd slayer · August 31, 2015

Having finally decided to upgrade from my old Xbox 360, I decided to move to pc gaming as all of my friends are playing games such as dota and csgo. I have been playing on a family laptop and decided to get a pc for my 16th birthday. (yes I am only a kid but I have had a Saturday job for 2 years now and have a slow but steady income from that. I also believe myself to be sensible enough to embark on such a measure of responsibility as to building a pc and being careful online, to end any arguments)

Having done hours of research i have come to the conclusion that the specs of my pc will be as follows:

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/fZvs4D

Please could you look at these specs and give some constructive feedback on them. Pros and cons are appreciated.

Anything around or under that is great if you wish to advise on your own system builds.

Furthermore some estimates on performance in games such as dota2, csgo, minecraft and cod. At the moment I am only looking to game and do basic office work however in the future I would hope to do YouTube, so that would involve video editing and rendering, aswell as steaming. For this could you please suggest some rough upgrade boundaries and guidelines please.

Anything constructive is most appreciated, thank you!!

Morgan MLGman · August 31, 2015

What's your maximum budget? You can fit an i5 and a GTX 950 within 700 pounds

arronleeds · August 31, 2015

Having finally decided to upgrade from my old Xbox 360, I decided to move to pc gaming as all of my friends are playing games such as dota and csgo. I have been playing on a family laptop and decided to get a pc for my 16th birthday. (yes I am only a kid but I have had a Saturday job for 2 years now and have a slow but steady income from that. I also believe myself to be sensible enough to embark on such a measure of responsibility as to building a pc and being careful online, to end any arguments)

Having done hours of research i have come to the conclusion that the specs of my pc will be as follows:

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/fZvs4D

Please could you look at these specs and give some constructive feedback on them. Pros and cons are appreciated.

Anything around or under that is great if you wish to advise on your own system builds.

Furthermore some estimates on performance in games such as dota2, csgo, minecraft and cod. At the moment I am only looking to game and do basic office work however in the future I would hope to do YouTube, so that would involve video editing and rendering, aswell as steaming. For this could you please suggest some rough upgrade boundaries and guidelines please.

also why an optical drive? only get an optical drive if your internet is slow.

Anything constructive is most appreciated, thank you!!

this is a decent first build, will be great for gaming at medium/high settings, the only issue is the cpu, if you upgrade to something along the r9 290 or higher in the future the cpu will bottleneck it.

Emanuel_M · August 31, 2015

[quote name="Nerd slayer" Furthermore some estimates on performance in games such as dota2, csgo, minecraft and cod. At the moment I am only looking to game and do basic office work however in the future I would hope to do YouTube, so that would involve video editing and rendering, aswell as steaming. For this could you please suggest some rough upgrade boundaries and guidelines please.

It's hard to do that last part, especially when you need a moniter, becuase that takes away from your budget. And you can get windows from reddit, so you can get some better parts. I'll try to work on a better one.

Emanuel_M · August 31, 2015

You would really have to get this

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/9JZWqs

Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/9JZWqs/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£139.80 @ CCL Computers)

Motherboard: MSI B85-G41 PC Mate ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£54.88 @ CCL Computers)

Memory: Kingston 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£33.18 @ CCL Computers)

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£38.70 @ Amazon UK)

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 950 2GB Superclocked Video Card (£125.99 @ Aria PC)

Case: Cooler Master K350 ATX Mid Tower Case (£21.59 @ Aria PC)

Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (£46.32 @ Scan.co.uk)

Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224DB/BEBE DVD/CD Writer (£9.36 @ CCL Computers)

Monitor: Hannspree HE225DPB 21.5" Monitor (£82.00 @ Aria PC)

Keyboard: Cooler Master CM Storm Devastator Gaming Bundle Wired Gaming Keyboard w/Optical Mouse (£25.99 @ CCL Computers)

Other: Windows reddit.com (£20.00)

Total: £597.81

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-31 14:08 BST+0100

Or

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/ddcBnQ

Idk about taxes, so it could add up more.

Nerd slayer · August 31, 2015

I like the second one, I can add in windows and still keep it to below 600 because I don't need a cup cooler. Not planning on overclocking. The only question is does it really need an 8 core cpu. Is their anything that fully uses 8 cores

Emanuel_M · August 31, 2015

I like the second one, I can add in windows and still keep it to below 600 because I don't need a cup cooler. Not planning on overclocking. The only question is does it really need an 8 core cpu. Is their anything that fully uses 8 cores

getting an after market cooler for it is still recommended, unless, you want an airplane in your room. You want to stream Nd record, so 8 cores is needed so you can play games, record, or stream at the same time.